Category:Coats of arms of Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, 3rd Earl of Kent

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Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, 3rd Earl of Kent (1372-1400) was the eldest son of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, a uterine half-brother of King Richard II, who adopted as his arms the attributed arms of King Edward the Confessor impaling the royal arms of England (see e.g. the Wilton Diptych); The paternal grandmother of Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, 3rd Earl of Kent was Joan Plantagenet, the "Fair Maid of Kent", daughter and sole heiress of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (6th son of King Edward I by his 2nd wife Margaret of France), whose arms were the Royal arms of King Edward I differenced by a bordure argent. Joan Plantagenet married Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, who was granted the arms of his father-in-law Edmund of Woodstock.